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Re: several changes today
>>>>> Ulrich Drepper writes:
Ulrich> Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> writes:
>> Will the code in opendir code (appended below) cause problems on older
>> systems (where O_DIRECTORY is defined via libc but not known to the
>> kernel)?
Ulrich> No. The kernel will simply ignore this extra bit.
Ok, that's fine - but don't we lose functionality since the checks if
it really is a directory are only done if the kernel understands the
flag?
Andreas
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